Former president Goodluck Jonathan, milking his new role as a (s)election loser and democrazy champion, was in Washington’s National Democratic Institute (NDI) to talk about his role as an international observer in the recent Tanzanian elections.
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Incidentally, it was the same venue, and the same interviewer, in which President Muhammadu Buhari made his infamous statement about treating those that gave him 97% of the vote better than those that gave him 5%.
Jonathan, with the strange habit of hand movements not always matching his words, claimed that the Tanzanian elections were better than the ones in Nigeria because of the cooperation between opposing parties at the polling units.
He strangely claimed that buying stuff for the electorate during campaigns, popularised in Nigeria as “stomach infrastructure”, was illegal in Tanzania, as it was seen as “inducing the electorate”.
Jonathan seemed unaware that this is illegal in Nigeria as well. Section 124 of the Electoral Act 2010 bans voter bribery and inducement through gifts or money during elections, with a maximum fine of 500,000 naira ($2,500) or 12 months in prison or both.
It is no wonder he is called “The Clueless One” by many Nigerians.
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